Vegetarian Guides on BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme

The Food Programme: Rethinking Veganism on BBC radio 4 FM, 21 and 22 July 2013.
Presenter Sheila Dillon hears from two influential and
meat-loving food writers, Mark Bittman and Alex Renton, who have found themselves looking again
at a vegan plant-based diet. She joins in at London Vegan Meetup Potluck,
discovers a new chain of German vegan supermarkets
and asks if there is a wider shift in attitudes towards veganism underway.Alex Bourke of Vegetarian Guides talks about the vegolution with the huge increase in the amount of vegan
food in vegetarian restaurants, the rise of vegan restaurants, and the different tribes of modern vegans
such as baketevists, gleegans, freegans, fitness freaks, macrobiotics and raw. Part of the fun of veganism
is to look at all of them and create your own personal synthesis. Listen again:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037524t

Read our weekend and holiday destination articles every month in
Vegetarian Living magazine

Vegetarian North of England (240 pages) is now out, with over 600 entries.
Further guides will follow for Scotland, Wales, South-East England, South-West England, and Vegetarian Britain 4 (800 pages).

Vegetarian Guides on BBC Radio 4 travel show Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage on BBC radio 4, Saturday 24 May 2008, 10.00-10.30a.m. British summer time.
John McCarthy interviews
Alex Bourke of Vegetarian Guides and Lyn Hughes (also vegetarian) of Wanderlust magazine
about travelling vegetarian. Listen again at
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage/index_20080524.shtml first 30 seconds then from
16:40 (min:secs) to the end.

International Festivals Calendar

April 2006, Vegetarian Guides launches an online calendar of
vegetarian and vegan festivals. Now you can
visit a new town or country, enjoy every meal, make new friends, and have a fantastic time!
View calendar

UK National Vegetarian Week 2006

Britain still leads Europe as the best place to eat out as a vegetarian, says
Vegetarian Guides founder Alex Bourke as he launches the third edition of the
best-selling guide to eating and staying vegetarian or vegan in Britain: Vegetarian Britain.
The guide has appeared in many newspapers and magazines including The Times travel
section (6 May 2006), Daily Express, Observer (28 May), and Alex spoke on BBC radio stations
about how easy it is to be vegetarian in Britain.

Vegetarian Guides in the media

Vegetarian Guides has been present in specialist and mainstream media since 1998 through its founder Alex Bourke. In order to help spread the message of vegetarian and vegan food and to promote our products, Alex Bourke does radio interviews, writes and contributes to feature articles and appears on television to discuss all areas of vegetarian and vegan living. Here is a list of some of the work we have been doing with the press, radio and TV.

Press Releases

Alex Bourke Radio Interviews

Vegetarian Guides on BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme

The Food Programme: Rethinking Veganism on BBC radio 4 FM, 21 and 22 July 2013.
Presenter Sheila Dillon hears from two influential and
meat-loving food writers, Mark Bittman and Alex Renton, who have found themselves looking again
at a vegan plant-based diet. She joins in at London Vegan Meetup Potluck,
discovers a new chain of German vegan supermarkets
and asks if there is a wider shift in attitudes towards veganism underway.Alex Bourke of Vegetarian Guides talks about the vegolution with the huge increase in the amount of vegan
food in vegetarian restaurants, the rise of vegan restaurants, and the different tribes of modern vegans
such as baketevists, gleegans, freegans, fitness freaks, macrobiotics and raw. Part of the fun of veganism
is to look at all of them and create your own personal synthesis. Listen again:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037524t

BBC Radio London 94.9FM, 4-Jun-2011, Sunny and Shay Show 20.00 (till end of show). Alex and
vegan MP Kerry McCarthy discuss why vegetarian or vegan, how to do it and eating out in London.

LBC 97.3, 9-Dec-2008, Nick Abbott Show 21.45 (till end of show). Alex and Nick discuss
the news that the Swiss Army has banned vegans, health
benefits of veganism, the
Vegan Pledge,
weight control, vegan sports champions, healthy old age, vegan restaurants in London, and
dispel some myths about vegans and veganism.

BBC Radio 4, 24-May-2008, Excess Baggage 10.00-10.30a.m. John McCarthy interviews
Alex Bourke of Vegetarian Guides and Lyn Hughes (also vegetarian) of Wanderlust magazine
about vegetarian travel in the second half of the programme. Listen again at
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage/index_20080524.shtml first 30 seconds then from
16:40 (min:secs) to the end.

BBC World Service 24-Nov-2006 18.30-19.00, World Have Your Say, 18.30-19.00.
Discussion with Alex Bourke of the UK political party Animals Count and Esther Ouwehand, one of two vegetarians from the
Party for the Animals
just elected to the Dutch parliament.
More about Party for the Animals.
BBC News feature on public launch of Animals Count with Esther Ouwehand, party leader Jasmijn de Boo and Alex Bourke.

BBC Radio 2, 1-Nov-2006, Chris Evans Show, 17.25 World Vegan Day.

BBC Radio 4, 14-Oct-2006, Farming Today, 06.35-07.00 Alex debates with the
Chairman of the Cumberland Sausage Association about the impact of meat-eating
on health, animals and the environment.

BBC Radio London 22-June-2006 23.15-23.45 Alex talks with Jumoke Fashola and
Nigel Bardsley about the vegan food taste explosion and raw food.

Channel ARTE, TV show Chic 05-Dec-2006 Vegetarian lifestyle in the UK, reportage in Brighton and interview with Alex Bourke (dubbed to French)

Carlton Late Night London 06-Aug-2001 Victoria Derbyshire, Should angling be banned?

Granada Club Vegetarian 22-Feb-2000, Vegetarian travel guides

ITV Ultimate Questions 21-May-2000 Martyn Lewis, Is meat murder?

Swedish Channel 1, Djurens Krigare, one hour documentary on the British animal rights movement
includes several scenes with Alex shopping for vegan food, producing Veggie Guides, commenting on
a recent fur farm raid by the ALF, and explaining how activists use the internet. (English with
Swedish subtitles. Includes many other British activists and has been shown several times at
peak viewing hours.)